Subject: Orchid Shops
From: Rob Halgren
Date: 4/22/2004 8:54 AM Central Daylight Time
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Ray wrote:

Technically, one cannot sell paphs internationally, as all are CITES
Appendix I plants.

http://www.cites.org/eng/append/index.shtml



Doesn't that apply to just species? I can order hybrids out of Taiwan
or Thailand... At least I think I can. Or flasked material. Haven't
tried it yet, but I've considered it.

Of course that doesn't help Dicky since he wants species. Perhaps you
can order them in flask? In this case patience is a virtue, but most of
those species will bloom a couple years out of flask.



As long as they are grown from flask, and apply for a CITES permit (which can
cost a bit of money) it's possible.


And as you said, hybrids are exempt.

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